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the Tesla Model S can be a boat that's what the CEO of Tesla Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter here's some background musc recently tweeted out a link to an article that featured a video of a Tesla Model S driving through a flooded tunnel the video is entitled Tesla Model S swimming and it now has over 350,000 views in the video the Tesla Model S goes into a flooded tunnel where other cars are stuck the Tesla maneuvers around those vehicles and gets through the tunnel easily musk tweeted out we definitely don't recommend this but the Model S floats well enough to turn it into a boat for short periods of time he then explained the car would continue to move forward because it would get thrust via a wheel rotation regular cars have problems being submerged because water will get into the engine Tesla vehicles don't have this problem as it uses electric motors to move musk also has a fascination with it fibia scars he tweeted out if curious about the spy who loved me car I am still planning to do a sports sub car that can drive on roads just a side project limited market potential with a little smiley face does the emoticon mean that musk is kidding probably not since he's the guy behind Tesla and SpaceX also it's a smiley face not a winky face so there that's it for this tech news update I'm Maya's akhtar you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash